Monthly Mingle August 2008: Fruit & Chocolate

Thanks to lovely Sig for hosting the last session of the Monthly Mingle. Sig hosted a fantastic summer fun mingle with Grill it! You can check out the roundup on her blog here.

Now it's time to unveil the theme and your challenge for August!

August is always bursting with the juiciest, ripest and sweetest of summer fruits. Peaches, berries, mirabelles, plums, apricots - the list goes on and on! I have to tell you the truth I have really been going crazy working and experimenting with all these fruits lately.

However, I realized one thing - all my creations and experiments was missing one ingredient - chocolate! And I am supposed to be a chocoholic?

As a matter of fact as I was deciding on the theme for this mingle, I browsed through my previous posts and realized I had not posted a chocolate recipe in a long time. Am I cured of my addiction? No - to remedy this quickly I decided to dedicate a whole mingle to chocolate, but so that we all do not miss out on the lovely fruit of August we'll be integrating a summer fruit of choice.

Create a dish that fits the theme of “Fruit & Chocolate” as described above

Post about it on your blog anytime from now until 8 September (entries must be in English, please).

Link to this post and send the details to me (see below).

Once you’ve posted your dish, send an email with “Fruit & Chocolate” in the subject line to: meetasmingle (at) gmail (dot) com by 8 September with the following information:

your name

your location

the name of your blog

the name of your dish and a link to the relevant post

type of dish (e.g. Entrée, Sweet, Salad, Soup, Snack, Dessert etc.)

a copy of the main photo of your dish 200px wide (and compressed so that it is below 1MB!)

I request you to read through the guidelines above carefully. Following them will help me find your entries easily (if they land in the spam folder), categorize them correctly for the roundup and upload the pictures faster.

I sent you an email just checking whether my entry would scrape through with the time difference. Perhaps it has landed in your spam folder. If so, could you please let me know? I'd love to participate!

Thank you for visiting What's For Lunch, Honey? and taking time to browse through my recipes, listen to my ramblings and enjoy my photographs. I appreciate all your comments, feedback and input. I will answer your questions to my best knowledge and respond to your comments as soon as possible.

In the meantime I hope you enjoy your stay here and that I was able to make this an experience for your senses.

Hello, I am Meeta a freelance food photographer, stylist and writer. After living around the globe I have found my home in the culturally rich city of Weimar, Germany. My life is a roller coaster ride and everyday I look forward to a new adventure. I enjoy preparing multi-cultural home cooked meals with fresh organic ingredients. What's for lunch, Honey? is my award winning food blog where I combine my love for food with my love for photography and styling...